Within the trial battlefield, after Li Wei and the Dragon Legion he had summoned completely breached the walls of the ancient Serrasand royal capital, nothing could stop them anymore.
This battlefield recreated by the gods was not some game that endlessly spawned monsters. It only had so many built-in "enemies"; naturally, the more they killed, the fewer remained. Once their numbers fell below a certain point, it became little more than a one-sided slaughter.
Nor was it reality. In reality, after suffering such a completely lopsided, devastating blow, people's hearts would have collapsed, and there would have been no later developments to speak of.
The only thing that put Li Wei on guard was the wolves constantly emerging from the royal capital. They were so hideous that Li Wei even wondered whether calling them wolves was an insult to wolves as a species.
Yet these monstrous wolves were fiercely aggressive. It was only because Li Wei's "party" composition was so absurdly powerful, and because he had specifically warned everyone before they entered the city, that the creatures were usually focused down and killed the moment they appeared.
Even so, knights were still caught by them. Had their comrades beside them not come to the rescue in time, they might have had their throats locked and been killed outright by those hunters that suddenly sprang forth.
Soon afterward, through his link to Remlu's hive mind, Li Wei received news from outside. Those wounded Zelandia warriors had visibly grown much weaker, even showing signs of mental confusion. As for a giant lizard mount that had directly "died," its real-world body immediately fell into hysterical madness before dropping dead.
After examination and analysis by several Mages who had "dropped out" midway, it seemed that the giant lizard's consciousness—or rather, its soul—had vanished completely,